Toolbox

Find information and materials to assist you in Workday@Penn operations.

Guide to Time Tracking

This guide is designed to help schools and centers understand how time tracking functions in Workday. Those with the Workday security roles of manager and timekeeper are primarily responsible for reviewing and approving time submitted by non-exempt workers. PennKey required.

Guide to Compensation

This guide is designed to help schools and centers understand how compensation functions in Workday and affects pay. PennKey required.

Guide to Retroactive Events and Transactions

This guide is designed to help schools and centers understand how Workday handles transactions and events for a prior time period. PennKey required.

Guide to Workday Learning

This guide contains information on the university's learning management system, which combines professional development and required job training into a single intuitive application. The guide also contains information about access to the health system's Knowledge Link and access to Workday Learning for those who are not in Workday as paid university workers. PennKey required.

Guide to Staff Performance Management

This guide helps all eligible staff and their managers easily find tip sheets and videos to accomplish their performance reviews and an overview to help understand the process. PennKey required.

Guide to Security Roles and Organizations

Find definitions for the most common security roles, the transactions for which they are responsible, their data visibility, and business process access. PennKey required.

Guide to Change Job Business Processes

This guide helps schools and centers identify tip sheets and other resources to help them perform staffing events such as promotions, demotions, transfers, lateral changes, changes to job details such as work location. PennKey required.

Guide to Accounting and Workday

This guide is designed to help schools and centers understand how accounting and costing allocations function in Workday and affect BEN Financials.

Guide to Changes to Work Location

Find guidance from the Payroll Tax office and the Division of Human Resources for those who have a change in work location. PennKey required.

Guide to Workday Data Audit and Governance

Find a collection of practices and processes that assists in the good governance and management of Penn's Workday data. PennKey required.

Guide to Reports and Dashboards

Learn about Workday reports and dashboards and how authorized security roles can run and access them. PennKey required.

Forms and Templates

Find manual timesheets and other formsPennKey required.

The Workday Mobile App

Perform many of the popular self-service tasks of the Workday@Penn desktop application with the convenient and time-saving Workday Mobile App.

Penn Community

Penn Community, an offering under ISC's Identity Management Services, provides biographic, demographic and affiliation information about people who are part of the University community. 

The Penn Employee Solution Center

The Penn Employee Solution Center is part of Penn’s initiative to improve our people-centered services and provide consistent, up-to-date responses to the University community's questions.

Workday Policies

Learn about Workday@Penn-specific policies that help to govern its use.

Contact Us

Penn Employee Solution Center
solutioncenter@upenn.edu or (215) 898-7372